Pink Floyds David Gilmour

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David Gilmour has spoken about coming to terms with his lack of speed, echoing recent sentiments shared by Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher that lightning-quick shredding isn’t necessarily the pinnacle of talent.

The Pink Floyd guitarist released his latest solo record, Luck and Strange, earlier this year, believing it to be his best body of work side The Dark Side of the Moon. It’s full of the slow and purposeful soloing he’d built his reputation on, and he’s revealed that his playing style was influenced by his limitations on the electric guitar.

“I wasn’t gifted with enormous speed on the guitar,” he says in a new interview with Rick Beato. “There were years when I was younger where I thought I could get that if I practiced enough. But it just wasn’t ever really going to happen.”

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